ideaFigure out what your idea is.

Design idea =/= paper idea.

Make sure that the external examiner is more curious about what the

idea is, not the design itself.

Many papers contain many good ideas, but do not distil what they

are.

The purposeThe purpose of the paper is not...

… to describe your project or prototype.

The role of Master thesis is to communicate your ideas or your

arguments to the audiences.

Ex_)

Initial title: SocialMirror: Online social networking tool to support

independence of adults on the austism spectrum

Revised title: Designing a social network to support the

independence of young adults with austism

StorytellingThink about the story. What the readers want to hear about?

Write an abstract first including story ending.

But, story ending =/= Conclusion of your project.

What will be the essence of your study? Try to describe the essence

of your study in one sentence. You did what.. So..

Of course, story ending can be changed while you do further

develop your study.

AbstractThis project presents a ___________ method for

____________ the ____________, Using _______________ ,

the ____________was measured to be ________ +/- ________.

Results show ________________agreement with theoretical

predictions and significant improvement over previous

efforts by _____________, et al.

The work presented here has profound implications for

future studies of ___________ and may one day help solve

the problem of ______________.

Keywords: ___________, ____________, ____________

StorytellingV.0

[…] In this paper, we describe the results of our interviews

and observations with young adults with austism andtheir

caregivers, who are mainly parents and teachers[….]

V.1.6

[…] Focus group discussions reveal the potential for

SocialMirror to increase motivation to learn everyday life

skills amongyoung adultswith austism and to forster

collaboration amonga distributed care-givers. […]

StructuringTitle

Abstract

Introduction

Related Work

Methods

Results & Discussion

Conclusions

Acknowledgement

References

Related WorkCommon Mistakes

1. 해당분야의역사부터언급2. 비슷한연구의나열에그침3. 비슷한연구를찾지못하였기에내연구가유일한연구임을

단정

Related WorkStrategies

1. Give real comparisons, nota 'laundry list': 내연구와기존연구를아주자세하게비교하고, 다른점을명확하게한다.

2. Categorizing: 비슷한 Theme이나 approach를 가진연구를묶어설명하고, 이논문이어떻게기존연구들이설명하지못한gap을채울수있는지논의한다.

3. 어떤지점에서 inspiration을 받았는지설명하고, credit을명확히한다.

Summary

• 현재연구핵심 (결론)을한마디로요약하고, 논문을구성한다.

• 결론은원래계획했던방향과는달라질수있다.

• 툴을이용하여참고문헌을상시정리해둔다. 하지만, 남이쓴문장전체를복사붙여넣기하는것은피한다. 부족하지만본인만의언어로정리한다.

• 협업은라이팅의좋은자극제이다. 또한동떨어진분야친구들에게도피드백을받는것도중요하다.

• 학교의언어교육관련리소스를적극적으로이용하자.